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Classroom and schoolyard interactions provide an opportunity for teachers and students to develop and model respectful relationships. (Getty Images/Unsplash)

Male teachers can challenge misogyny in schools every day, not just on International Women’s Day

Canadian and Australian studies are hearing from male teachers who promote gender and social justice while challenging and disrupting patriarchal masculinities in their classrooms.
Biology reinforces the positive impact of female friendships through the release of oxytocin, otherwise known as the “love hormone.” (Unsplash)

Behind women’s success is a sisterhood that sustains it

Women’s success, resilience and well-being are not purely individual achievements. They are deeply supported by female friendships and collective social bonds.
Managing the home while caring for an elderly relative involves a multitude of activities and constant coordination of space and relationships. (Shutterstock)

Women caregivers need better financial support

Women caregivers provide vital support for aging relatives, however, they often go without the support they need to do their work.
Connecting with the climate risks that could be faced by future generations could influence support for better policies now. Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock

Women favour climate actions that benefit future generations more than men – new study

Attitudes towards climate policies partly depend on a consideration of future, as yet unborn, descendants. Women tended to show more ability to think about how future generations could benefit.
Palestinian women react after their home was hit by an Israeli strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Feb. 8, 2024. In Gaza and elsewhere, an effective feminist foreign aid policy needs political action to address root causes of poverty, violence and sexual and reproductive harm. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Canada’s inaction in Gaza marks a failure of its feminist foreign policy

Canada’s tepid response to the war in Gaza and the severe harm caused to Palestinian women casts doubt on the sincerity of the government’s Feminist International Assistance Policy.

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